AdamHLG

So it is triangulating with antennas after all. It is pretty amazing the tools we have today.

Is there an easy way to explain how this works? I watched a pretty good bolt hit the ground very close to me in Towson with a huge bang last round of storms and a few min later on Radarscope it showed the bolt inside the blue location circle on my iPhone - - amazingly accurate I might add as the bolt hit to the south a bit and it was almost pinpoint accuracy to my eye on RadarScope. Are there lightning antennas all over town and its triangulating? That can't be it you would need to blanket the entire country!

A suspected lightning strike sparked a 2 alarm house fire in Frederick County resulting in a mayday on the fireground. Thoughts and prayers to the Frederick County FD and family of the fallen firefighter. It has been posted in fire department circles that this is a LODD.

This is like hoping to get that warning criteria snow we missed on the back end. .

I was 25 minutes off. I am losing my edge. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0401.html

Not getting my hopes up. Putting the models aside there’s a certain boots-on-the-ground experience factor. If you look back on the top 10 severe weather days over the past 25 years, you know, the ones you really remember as weenies, I wonder how many of those events occurred on the “super hype” days vs how many events occurred on the typical “chance of severe storm” generic days. And then you add the geographic factor that probably 25-30 % of us win on any given severe day, plus the “when in drought leave it out” mantra. Plus the fog. Plus the crapvection in Pittsburgh. Not that I won’t think about it this afternoon, but better to be “surprised” if the levels of forecasted severe actually come to fruition. I prefer the “wow it actually happened” feeling better than the “another bust” feeling. Same with winter. On the other hand, now that I posted this, we will probably get a tornado watch at 2 pm. .

Now its up on SPC.

I am getting phone alerts for the watch - and seeing it on this Board - before the SPC website even has the watch listed lol.

There are so many damn cicadas flying around that in has caused convection inhibition.

Damn you beat me. I was going to post this from my driveway. Now I want to go hunt. . .

This one is legit for sure. Chestnut Ridge hit square in the jaw. Wow. Lot of CG strikes and torrential + rain. .

You know what … that’s really an interesting point. Those things can be a pain in the ass and every 10th spinner seems to get caught in the cracks between the wood planks in my deck, making them impervious to the power of my 85 mph electric leaf blower. So I break my back picking those dam things out of the deck cracks by hand because I’m OCD about it. So if this wind storm cleaned the canopies and I can take the summer off dealing with spinners I raise a glass to this wind! .

We are still in the tail end of living in a world where many can work (or are required) to still work virtually “from home”. .

Its been a nice ride but I am about ready to cash my chips in here and go place some long range bets at the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Severe Weather - General Discussion table.

Currently 89°/ 53 humidity and sunny in Playa Conchal, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. I missed the ice storm and today. But I am pulling for my wx brothers and sisters that you flip back to puking fatties ASAP. .

We've been watching trends for the past 24 hours and the RGEM is going to save the day? This is the third sequel of this movie and it seems to always end the same. Just sayin.

It was this time last week that the rug got pulled a bit and we lost the 24”. 00z run. Fri night. It’s like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop with each post. .

When does the RGEM come out and give us 33.5” like the last storm? That’s tomorrow night right? .

Happy to report from the northern tier that, while less than I personally expected, it was warning criteria (well at least what I qualify to be a warning around here at my back yard ) and it was fun to track and feel included for 2 days of an east coast storm. But man... 3 days of modeling for the big one up north to be our baby only to have the rug pulled out by the NAM on Sat night hurt. Big reminder to me that despite what the Euro and GFS says about 24” 3-4 days out..... or that damn RGEM that stoked the fire ... Miller Bs will always be game time wildcard storms. I need to temper expectations. .

Well, tbh, it’s also one step away from “none”. .

FIFY!!

For me, it was two back to back severe lines of thunderstorms that rocked Rehoboth Beach on the evening of September 3. I wrote about my experience here: https://www.americanwx.com/bb/topic/52962-2020-mid-atlantic-severe-weather-general-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5648916 .

We better do this soon or the sun angle posts will start appearing.

I hate to say it but deep down I think we all know where this is headed. We just don't want to accept it.

^^ wow its pretty even the amount of day and night over the course of a year. /s